PLEASE NOTE: This book contains graphic description ... - HUNSOR

Jozsi, the leader of our committee had arranged a dinner with the commander early that morning,but when he entered the convent, he came out crying laudly about that he would not take thesebloodstained partisans to dinner, after seeing bloody corpses and villagers writhing in agony.Many were taken to the graveyard to dig graves. In the convent, the Partisans burnt the suspectswith cigarette butts to make them confess they had been in Csurog and Zsablya. They werebeaten to death even if they did not admit to anything. Someone was beaten to death in theparish hall for not being willing to spit at the Hungarian flag. Those who were not killed in theconvent were driven to the cemetery in pairs.Those who were beaten to death in the village were loaded on a cart by Andras Komenda, thisdrove him mad. By the time the procession reached the cemetery, the machine guns had been setup facing the victims. Everybody had to undress and then they opened fire. The town crierducked into the pit in time unhurt, and later pushed his way through the corpses and went home.His wife kept him hiding in the attic for a long time. When he finally appeared, the "resurrected"was summoned to the village hall and was given a job there."Horvath the town crier told Sandor Illes, who included this incident in one of his writings.Horvath was exasperated. The town crier bears a grudge against Sandor Illes, because he askedthe writer not to mention his name in his writing. It still appeared in Illes's book "Lament" alongwith the story of his escape, and his indignant Serbian adversaries spread excrement on hiswalls.Sandor Illes's account of Temerin in Lament can be regarded as a documentary source, since thevillage was his home. Now that Horvath is dead his name and case can be made public.Several of the partisans from Csurog and Zsablya were responsible for the slaughter in Temerin.They wore civilian clothes and had moustaches. They came. It was they who did the bloodiest"work" in the convent building and at the Scale House.It was they who drove hundreds of Temerin people to the88Danube bank at Novi Sad to do away with them since they considered the common grave dug atTemerin not sufficiently large enough."It was late night when they reached Novi Sad. the streets were quiet, as if the town wasdeserted. They turn in the direction of the Liman, the Danube bank. Will the terrible massacre ofNovi Sad be repeated? Will they take revenge? These simple good peasants had nothing to dowith Novi Sad. "Everybody turn to face the Danube", the order was passed by word of mouth.When they turned towards the Danube, the men heard a machine gun being set up behind them.There were several hundred men waiting for deathThey were made to throw their belongings from their pockets on the ground. There werelighters, pocket knives,wallets.There was complete silence except for the rolling Danube River. the trobbing of our heart, andthe loud sobbing of one of the men. We could feel rather than see the tall tower of the medievalfort Petervarad with the bastions and high walls.